The volume brings together recent papers by the author, selected to form a broad picture of his teachings, all of them revised and updated, either addressing pa

The volume brings together recent papers by the author, selected to form a broad picture of his teachings, all of them revised and updated, either addressing pa

The present volume brings together the author's most recent thinking on the tasks and methods of linguistic historiography and his critical assessment of the le

Theory and history combine in this book to form a coherent narrative of the debates on language and languages in the Western world, from ancient classic philoso

Anthropology and linguistics, as historically developing disciplines, have had partly separate roots and traditions. In particular settings and in general, the